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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1958
Playing It Safe
Kansas State College and now KU, via their student governing bodies, have entered the 30-million-dollar battle of the budget which will come down to a photo finish sometime in January or February.
It might be well to throw out a few observations on the position the student groups have taken.
In the first place, whether they think so or not, the students are throwing themselves into a plenty hot political oven. It is hard to find a Republican who has not openly decried that the governor is "uninformed." Of course there are some Democrats doing this too, along with some socialists, independents, prohibitionists, whigs, tories, and a smattering of populists.
If the All Student Council is tired of petty party politics on the campus, they turned in the right direction to get a taste of the other side.
The Democrats, on the other hand, have not been too forceful in their support of Gov. Docking. Don't worry, though, the governor has support.
Actually the two schools have played it pretty safe.
In a sense they have jumped on the band wagon. The budget fight has been going on for several months and just recently came to a head. The time is ripe to be one of the boys.
If the fight for a higher budget and a salary raise is successful, the two student governments will be able to pat themselves on the back for semesters to come. The chance of added prestige is good. They'll be able to say, "We helped," and others will say, "Yes, you did."
What if they lose?
It's easy. The losers, and there would be plenty of them,would shrink back to where they came from. They would disappear from the headlines, get lost in a cloud of smoke, issue "no comment" statements, and just retire.
If the students are caught with their political pants down, they can't possibly be hurt. There will be so many that get caught that there won't be anyone left to throw it up to them.
Yes, they are playing it pretty safe.
The governing bodies must be congratulated for swinging in behind certain groups in the fight for better education. They have seized upon an opportunity to help the people and institutions that are supposed to help them.
The governing bodies have really played it safe.
Bob Hartley
Road Problem
In the last waning days of 1957 snow fell on Kansas. Like most snow it did not miss the roads, but gave them just as liberal a dose as the surrounding countryside.
The roads were passable, but dangerous. Freezing temperatures glazed the roads and bills till many areas became spots, if not death spots.
The state seemed to take their time in meeting the emergency. The roads belong to the state, but they seemed to be in no hurry to clear them. Four and five days after the snow fell, plows were still out clearing the couple of inches off the roads.
In the meantime, the snow in many places had turned to deadly ice. Ice, where one false move on the part of a driver could mean crippling injury or even death.
The excuse has been given many times that not enough snow falls in Kansas to warrant buying snow clearing equipment. However, a mixture of rock salt and sand spread over the roads by the dump trucks already owned by the state wouldn't be so awfully expensive and it just might save lives.
New York State doesn't ordinarily put all their plows out on roads immediately after a few inches of snow either, but they do send their trucks out with sand and salt and before the snow even gets a good start, dangerous hills and curves have been taken care of.
Is it too much to ask the state to buy a little salt and sand to put on our roads when it snows? We would like to drive on safe roads too, not a public ice rink.
-Lee Lord
One of the most informative and worthwhile television programs of recent months was presented by CBS Sunday afternoon. The program, "Where We Stand" was a 90 minute presentation of the comparative strengths of the United States and the Soviet Union in the vital fields of science, weapons, defense, education and economics.
Where We Stand
CBS correspondents Walter Cron-
kite, Howard K. Smith, Daniel L. Schorr and Alexander Kendrick narrated the program and interviewed authorities in various scientific fields.
The authorities interviewed were Dr. John Hagen, chief of the Vanguard Project; Gen. George Medaris, director of the Army Missile program at Redstone Arsenal; Gen. Bernard Schriever, director of the
Air Force Ballistic Missile program and Dr. Louis Ridenour, noted physicist and former chief scientist for the Air Force.
Speaking on arms and defenses were Gen. Omar Bradley and Gen. James M. Gavin, chief of Army Research and Development. And in the field of economics CBS interviewed Professor Abram Bergson, Harvard University, the nation's top authority on Russian economies.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"I UNDERSTAND HE'S UP FOR RETIREMENT NEXT YEAR."
CBS clearly showed that more scientific training is needed in this country. Russia's lead in the field of science, real or imagined, is due to their vigorous scientific training program, which begins in high school with a six day week. This country could use a little rougher curriculum for our potential future scientists.
This fact-packed 90 minutes gave the viewers a clear picture on where the United States does stand in all fields.
The Russian power and capability picture was presented by Daniel Schorr, CBS Moscow correspondent.
—Del Haley
..Letters ..Thanks
Thanks for the write-up about Clavton Krehbiel's group in Daily Kansas issue of Dec. 20. You did a good job on it, as you always do in your paper.
Editor:
M. K. McKinney Instructor of English
Mount Vernon, George Washington's 500-acre estate on the Petomac River in Virginia, is saluted by each United States Navy vessel that passes.
The bag limit on bear in California is two per season except in one county where a hunter may kill as many as he can.
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